Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.